Stop by and visit our Festival Store, located in the convention center lobby across from the Registration Desk and check-in kiosks.
Our store is unique for its wide variety of quality brands in men’s, ladies’, and children’s wear that have been customized with our colorful logo featuring the Kiskadee, Altamira Oriole and Green Jay triad. In addition to brands such as Banana Republic, Danskin, Columbia, Spyder, and Buffalo, we also offer ball caps, visors and bandanas, rainwear, stocking caps, bird ornaments and jigsaw puzzles, a comprehensive collection of festival posters and patches, and more—all at very reasonable prices.
To serve as the piece de resistance of our inventory, the festival commissions a different artist each year to create the artwork of our designated bird-of-the-year, selected from our list of Valley specialty birds. The artwork becomes the centerpiece of the year’s festival commemorative t-shirt, patch, and poster. The Festival Store is the only place you can purchase these beautiful souvenirs of your visit to the festival. Start or continue your collection of these unique and artistic tees by stopping by the Festival Store.
The Festival Store is operated and staffed entirely by volunteers, and all proceeds help fund the continuation of our non-profit festival. The store operates only during the days of the festival. As essentially a six-day pop-up vendor, inventory is limited; so if you see an item in a color and size that you like, don’t delay!
November is a great time to shop for holiday gifts and support this great festival. The store is open from Tuesday through Sunday during festival week and is staffed each day from before the day’s earliest departing field trip until the end of evening’s last event.
This year’s featured artist is long-time festival guide Shawneen Finnegan, from Beaverton, OR. Her original artwork of this year’s Altamira Oriole will be on offer at the festival’s Silent Auction.
IMAGE OF THE 2024 SHIRT WILL BE ADDED SOON
The Artist
Shawneen Finnegan found her calling when she discovered birding in her early 20s. Already a talented artist, she began drawing and painting birds. Her illustrations have adorned bird festival t-shirts including this year’s RGVBF tee of Altamira Orioles. Her art, photos and writing have been featured in numerous identification articles, field guides and state and regional monographs. She led and later managed tours for WINGS, was Birding magazine’s photo editor for several years, and has served on four state bird records committees. In addition to birding around the globe, Shawneen has lived in birding meccas, with long stints in Cape May and Tucson. In 2007 she moved to Portland, Oregon. She and husband Dave Irons are the statewide eBird Review Coordinators for Oregon, making their home in Beaverton.